Course catalog

Urban public schools have been failing to educate minority and low-income children in this country at tragic levels for more than two...

The Integrated Policy Exercise provides students with a week long opportunity to work intensively on a policy issue. The course is held the first week in...

This seminar develops a framework for crafting sensible housing and community development strategies. Several key goals of the field will be investigated, including affordability, quality of life, community, and...

This course examines the consequences of ethnic heterogeneity for political competition and conflict around the world. The course is organized into four...

What are the consequences of globalization for democratic performance? How does international economic integration affect the process of policymaking in...

Satellite television. The Internet. Text messaging. They have changed politics, economics and even cultures...

This course provides a survey of policy and management issues in the nonprofit sector in the...

This course developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two...

This course developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two...

Immigration is a phenomenon that touches upon every aspect of American society, from economic growth to neighborhood institutions to national...

A course on the strategy and tactics of governmental outsiders who seek to influence public...

This course examines how globalization affects social and economic policymaking within and between countries and how policies can be designed to both capitalize on the new opportunities created by globalization and ameliorate its most painful...

This course examines the interaction of politics and policymaking at the state...

The information revolution and the expanding use of information technology within all organizations, profit and non-profit, public and private, has created an environment in which access to massive quantities of information, at startling speeds,...

This course examines the origins, development, and impact of selected civil rights policies concerning race. Major topics include employment, education, voting, and...

(2 Credits for class portion) -- This is a year-long course devoted to developing an internet-based course to promote quantitative social science in South...

The goal of this course is to enhance the students' ability to bring about the individual and organizational changes they want to...

This course is organized around contemporary policy issues affecting the health and health care of children in the US and their families, set within the context of the US health care...

Programs to serve the poor have evolved sporadically in the...

The course topic will change every new term. This seminar looks at the relationship between the changing nature of knowledge and policies for controlling access and use, principally through intellectual property protection and...

A bi-weekly one-credit seminar that introduces students to applied policy research. For students in the Ford School Joint Ph.D....